Emilienne Baneth-Nouailhetas appointed Vice-President for International Relations at PSL
The PSL Board of Administrators, meeting on October 15, 2020, confirmed the appointment of Emilienne Baneth-Nouailhetas, Professor of Literature and formerly an Attaché at the French Embassy in Indonesia, to the position of Vice-President for International Relations of Université PSL. She took up her post on October 19. The Vice-President for International Relations, under the authority of President Alain Fuchs, is in charge of developing Université PSL’s international strategy.
Professor Baneth-Nouailhetas, a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure of
Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, holds a PhD in Literature from Université Paris III. She is a Professor at Université Rennes 2 and was the Director of International Relations at the Institut national des sciences appliquées Centre Val de Loire. Formerly, she was Vice-President for International Relations at Université Rennes 2, deputy scientific Director at the CNRS's Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, director of an international research center between the CNRS and New York University; she has held the position of Attaché for cooperation in two embassies. Her research focuses on colonial and post-colonial anglophone literature.
Mrs Baneth-Nouailhetas succeeds Mrs Minh-Hà Pham, who has joined the French Embassy in London as an adviser for science and technology.